chunklovescooks
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Theese people are savages! how could you force horses to fight for the sake of money! all im saying is one day.... the ILPH will get guns ^^
Horrendous Stallion Fighting !!!
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Sooty
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LOL - yes, if this was happening in the UK, possibly...
hallarider
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Have sent them a stinking email. I can't stop thinking about it. that poor mare as well. Quite simply apalling.
voicesforhorses
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I am not condoning animal cruelty, merely commenting that in this case, the act of cruelty is short
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I have to disagree......
"These tournaments are truly barbaric," says Andrew Plumbly of the welfare group Network for Animals, which has been campaigning to bring an end to the savage contests.
"Our vets have seen horses being kicked in the head so hard that their eyes have popped out of their sockets. Other horses have had their ears ripped off. It's straight out of the Middle Ages."
Though horses do not normally fight one another, these stallions had been whipped into a fighting frenzy by the presence of a young mare who was "in season" and had been staked to the ground in the middle of the muddy arena.
Overwhelmed by desire, the stallions attacked each other in a bid to defeat their sexual rivals"
Full article can be read at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar...in_page_id=1811
There is also a petition if any one wants to sign:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-horse-fighting-in-korea-china%20phillipines
Wanting to stop this does not mean people - myself included do not support the protection of other animals and work to campaign in many areas.
Emma
www.voicesforhorses.co.uk
I am not condoning animal cruelty, merely commenting that in this case, the act of cruelty is short
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I have to disagree......
"These tournaments are truly barbaric," says Andrew Plumbly of the welfare group Network for Animals, which has been campaigning to bring an end to the savage contests.
"Our vets have seen horses being kicked in the head so hard that their eyes have popped out of their sockets. Other horses have had their ears ripped off. It's straight out of the Middle Ages."
Though horses do not normally fight one another, these stallions had been whipped into a fighting frenzy by the presence of a young mare who was "in season" and had been staked to the ground in the middle of the muddy arena.
Overwhelmed by desire, the stallions attacked each other in a bid to defeat their sexual rivals"
Full article can be read at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar...in_page_id=1811
There is also a petition if any one wants to sign:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-horse-fighting-in-korea-china%20phillipines
Wanting to stop this does not mean people - myself included do not support the protection of other animals and work to campaign in many areas.
Emma
www.voicesforhorses.co.uk